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obvious duty
as a general. respectfully to receive such Comments but in this case the opinion papered of the above Despatch became the medium for other Comments which might be had as on me a very odious personal imputation. I by no means trifle that there was any to do so. Nevertheless I believe, as a matter of fact that persons reading Your Lordship's letter thought that such an imputation had been Intended.
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3. Your Lordship has been pleased to inform me that on the 1st day you
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"of the
- answer, which in my despatch of the 16th March, after I knew that Your predecessor
"had retired from Office, I made to Instructions "sent by him". In
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In your
Lordship's dispatch
of the 1st May the same point had been put but not so fully, and though such pointed thereby at the time, I did not feel actually bound to justify it.
4. Now however after a lapse of nearly
three months the same remark is repeated, but though that is probably in words which go further, though that is
accidental. Nevertheless I think You Lordship would
on reflection Expect me to notice them as the
Majority of Readers
would perhaps regard them
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as not merely Conveying Your Lordship's
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certain Remarks, but as also
Condemnation of certain Remarks,
implying that, as I made them with the knowledge that Your Lordship's predecessor had retired from Office, I could probably not have ventured to use such
Office language had he been still in
5. I preserve
a
grateful Remembrance of
of the kind personal interest evinced by
the Duke
of Buckingham in the events of my administration
by his occasional unofficial
Correspondence with- I feel incapable of wilfully writing a
word to reflect on this gracious. I considered at the time,
Must I am more by sorry I did so,
that it was
quite
legitimate for me to express my regret at what the
end of this government. seemed too hasty
6. My contention of what I had a right to say May have
The main taken by all been Wholly unwarranted.
Your Lordship is proof deficient that such was
It may have been improper in the case to have expressed any such regret at all, And I may
have done so too plainly and in bad haste. No doubt there are grave faults, but nevertheless they are Capable of Amendment and are essentially different in kind from that implied by the Suggestion that I was in the least thinking who was in or who was out, or likely to be either in or out, when I was pleading myself and Council against a suspected misinterpretation of our policy.
7. I have however not the least intention to defend myself against such an imputation I do not believe it was intended, and in any case
even an effectual defence would be humiliation. As however I could never Completely prove a negative
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